Vol. 36 No. 7 · 3 April 2014

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Cover Artist

Alice Spawls

Christopher Tayler

The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

Letters

Paul Rosenbloom, Jinty Nelson, Sandra Browne, Alex Danchev, Tara Lamont, Gabriel Ross, Ben Judah, Jeremy Walton, Sheila Johnson, David Campbell, Andrew Stilwell, Oliver Miles, Nigel Ganly

T.J. Clark

Veronese’s ‘Allegories of Love’

Helen Vendler

The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Vols I-IICorrespondence edited by R.K.R. Thorton and Catherine Phillips

Peter Neumann

Suspects into Collaborators

Rosemary Hill

At Tate Britain: ‘Ruin Lust’

Philip Terry

Poem: ‘Inferno: Canto I’

Bernard Porter

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson

Yun Sheng

Short Cuts: ‘Finnegans Wake’ in China

Thomas Nagel

The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment and the Limits of Regret by R. Jay Wallace

Michael Hofmann

The Living Option: Selected Poems by Karen Solie

Peter Green

The Histories by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland
Herodotus: Vol. I, Herodotus and the Narrative of the Past edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Herodotus: Vol. II, Herodotus and the World edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Textual Rivals: Self-Presentation in Herodotus’ ‘Histories’ by David Branscome
The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus by Joseph Skinner

Hugo Williams

Three Poems

Katherine Rundell

King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
She by H. Rider Haggard

Julian Bell

At the Ashmolean: ‘Cézanne and the Modern’

Tom Shippey

Vikings: Life and Legend edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz and Matthias Wernhoff
The Northmen’s Fury by Philip Parker

Geoff Dyer

Diary: Why Can’t I See You?

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